Crossword clues for pruritus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pruritus \Pru*ri"tus\, n. [L.] (Med.) Itching.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"itching of the skin without visible eruption" [Klein], 1650s, from Latin pruritus, past participle of prurire "to itch" (see prurient). Earlier via Old French in form prurite (early 15c.). Related: Pruritic.
Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) severe itching, especially of undamaged skin; caused by allergy, infection, lymphoma etc
WordNet
n. an intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.)
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "pruritus".
Certainly they deserve some distinction from those works, which one of the wittiest of men regarded only as proceeding from a pruritus, or indeed rather from a looseness of the brain.
Prideaux cites a case at five, and Gaugirau Casals, a doctor of Agde, has seen a girl of six years who suffered abdominal colic, hemorrhage from the nose, migraine, and neuralgia, all periodically, which, with the association of pruritus of the genitals and engorged mammae, led him to suspect amenorrhea.
The ancient trepanning of skulls which so puzzled archeologists and anthropologists was directed at getting into the brain to scratch the announcing pruritus, the Boding Itch.
Pruritus vulvae, in its severest forms, is often developed when the discharge is scarcely noticeable.
At the feet of the Western Ghats, she searched for the herbs of virility, mucuna pruritus and the root of feronia elephantum.